《中国植物志》|| 柽柳科 TAMARICACEAE ||水柏枝属 Myricaria Desv. ||秀丽水柏枝 Myricaria elegans Royle

3.秀丽水柏枝（中国高等植物图鉴）
Myricaria elegans Royle, Illustr. Bot. Himal. 214. 1839; Dyer in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 1: 250. 1874; Maxim. Enum. Pl. Mong. 112. tab. 9. f. 15-16. 1889; Gorschk. in Fl. URSS 15: 322. 1949: Schiman-Czeika in Rech. Fl. Iran. 4: 6. 1964; 中国高等植物图鉴2: 898,图3526,1972; P. Y. Zhang et Y. J. Zhang in Bull. Bot. Res. 4 (2): 73. 1984. ——Tamarix ladachensis Baum, Monogr. Rev. Genus Tam. 141. tig. 59. 1966. ——Tamaricaria elegans (Royle) Qaiser et Ali in Blumea 24 (1): 151. fig. 1. Pl. 1. 1978.
灌木或小乔木，高约5米；老枝红褐色或暗紫色，当年生枝绿色或红褐色，光滑，有条 纹。叶较大，通常生于当年生绿色小枝上，长椭圆形、椭圆状披针形或卵状披针形，长5-15毫米，宽2-3毫米，先端钝或锐尖，基部狭缩具狭膜质边，无柄。总状花序通常侧生，稀顶生；苞片卵形或卵状披针形，长4-5毫米，宽2-3毫米，先端渐尖，具宽膜质边；花梗长2-3毫米，萼片卵状披针形或三角状卵形，长约2毫米，宽约1毫米，先端钝，基部多少结合，具宽膜质边；花瓣倒卵形，倒卵状椭圆形或椭圆形，长5-6毫米，宽2-3毫米，先端圆钝，基部渐狭缩，白色、粉红色或紫红色；雄蕊略短于花瓣，花丝基部合生，花药长圆形；子房圆锥形，长约5毫米，具头状无柄的柱头，柱头3裂。蒴果狭圆锥形，长约8毫米。种子矩圆形，长约1毫米，顶端具芒柱，芒柱全部被白色长柔毛。花期6-7月，果期8-9月。
产西藏西北部的阿里地区（札达、日土）及新疆西南部（叶城、麻札）。生于河岸、湖 边砂砾地及河滩，海拔3000-4300米。印度、巴基斯坦、苏联也有分布。模式标本采自克 什米尔。
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《Flora of China》|| Tamaricaceae || Myricaria ||秀丽水柏枝 Myricaria elegans

3. Myricaria elegans Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts. 214. 1839.

秀丽水柏枝 xiu li shui bai zhi

Shrubs or small trees, ca. 5 m tall. Old branches red-brown or dark purple, branches of current year green or red-brown. Leaves usually in green branchlets of current year, sessile, narrowly elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, relatively large, 5-15 × 2-3 mm, base narrow, margin narrowly membranous, apex obtuse or acute. Racemes usually lateral, rarely terminal; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, sometimes narrowly lanceolate, (3-)4-5 × 2-3 mm, margin broadly membranous, apex acuminate. Pedicels 2-3 mm. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, triangular-ovate, or ovate, (1-)2 × ca. 1 mm, ± united at base, margin broadly membranous, apex obtuse. Petals white, pink or purple-red, obovate, obovate-elliptic, or elliptic, or narrowly obovate or obovate-lanceolate, to 5-6 × 2-3 mm, base gradually narrowing, apex obtuse. Stamens slightly shorter than petals; filaments united at base; anthers oblong. Ovary conic, ca. 5 mm; stigmas capitate, sessile, 3-lobed. Capsule narrowly conic, ca. 8 mm. Seeds oblong, ca. 1 mm, apex awned; awns white villous throughout. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Aug-Sep.

River banks, riversides, sandy places at lakesides; 3000-4300 m. SW Xinjiang, NW and SE Xizang [India, Pakistan].